Zero Six Bravo, Damien Lewis
Zero Six Bravo, Damien Lewis
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Zero Six Bravo
The Explosive True Story of How 60 Special Forces Survived Against an Iraqi Army of 100,000

Author: Damien Lewis

Narrator: Michael Fenner

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Quercus

Published: 05/13/2014


Synopsis

Damien Lewis has spent twenty years reporting from conflict zones around the world. Zero Six Bravo--a Sunday Times number one bestseller--tells the story of "sixty special forces against 100,000--a feat of arms to take the breath away." (Frederick Forsythe) They were branded as cowards and accused desertion. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told.

In March 2003, M Squadron--an SBS unit with SAS embeds--was sent 1,000 kilometers behind enemy lines on a true mission impossible, to take the surrender of the 100,000-strong Iraqi Army 5th Corps, an operation so risky it earned the nickname â??Operation No Return' right out of the gate. Caught in a ferocious ambush by Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen, plus the awesome firepower of the 5th Corps' heavy armor, and with eight of their vehicles bogged in Iraqi swamps, M Squadron launched a desperate bid to escape, inflicting massive damage on their enemies. Running low on fuel and ammunition, outnumbered, and outgunned, the elite operators destroyed sensitive information and prepared for death or capture as the Iraqis closed their deadly trap.

Zero Six Bravo contains previously unpublished information detailing the essential involvement of American troops in this astonishing military feat. Zero Six Bravo recounts in vivid and compelling detail the most desperate battle fought by British and allied Special Forces trapped behind enemy lines since World War Two.

(P)2014 WF Howes Ltd

About Damien Lewis

Damien Lewis is an award-winning historian, war reporter, and bestselling author. He spent over two decades reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones around the world, winning numerous awards. He has written more than twenty books, including The Ministry for Ungentlemanly Warfare, Agent Josephine, Churchill's Band of Brothers, SAS Ghost Patrol, and The Nazi Hunters. His work has been published in over forty languages, and many of his books have been made, or are being developed as feature films, TV series, or as plays for the stage. Lewis is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Keith

First, let me start by writing that this is a real story and the events described in it are non-fiction, which makes it even more amazing. When M SQN of the Special Boat Service (SBS: the Navy equivelant of the SAS) was tasked with infiltrating Northern Iraq and forcing the Iraqi 5th Corps to surrend......more

A long winded account that really could have been halved in its publication. Repeated facts and opinions that made you want to just get to the key events. A good insight though in to what our Special Forces have to endure. One has to ask who dreamt up this whole Operation as it was a lack of foretho......more

Goodreads review by Igor

Here comes the hotstepper. So, a review. First, I feel kind of sad for the British SF. They always operate on thin margins, and never that awesome and expensive array of cool stuff that the Americans have. They also never fail to mention that. But then, it makes sense. War is expensive. This book foll......more

Goodreads review by Tim

On the face of it, this is another daring mission that went wrong, akin to Bravo Two Zero, but digging deeper it demonstrates the heroic, unrelenting and determined (albeit blacked out!!!) face of British Special Forces. They go where most would never dream to go in the name of security and whilst w......more

Modern Day Thermopylae … This book was reviewed as part of Amazon's Vine program which included a free advance copy of the book. Maybe I had at one point, but considering the flood of daring Spec Op stories these days, it is understandable that only the most recent exploits are memorable. With that be......more


Quotes

Ten years after a near disastrous mission during the Second Gulf War, which ended in allegations of cowardice, the story of M Squadron Special Boat Service is finally being told—Daily Telegraph